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Strengthen Unions to Fight Bosses' Attacks AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 2.00 EUROS · ICELAND KR100 · NEW ZEALAND $2.00 · SWEDEN KR10 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE French premier on Turkey: Stop 'river of Islam' into Europe — PAGE 3 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 68/NO. 37 OCTOBER 12, 2004 SWP candidate for president Róger Calero Strengthen unions to fight bosses’ attacks Socialist speaks at California campaign rally BY FRANK FORRESTAL ers produce through our labor power that SAN FRANCISCO—“At plant gates, the bosses take from us. They go after our mine portals, and in working-class districts, wages, benefi ts, and job and living condi- we often run into workers who say: ‘We tions to shore up their declining profi t rates. need a union. How do we organize one?’” That’s the source of all differentiation in the said Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party working class, of all divisions between em- candidate for U.S. president, at a September ployed and unemployed, old and young, men 25 campaign rally here. “We fi nd increasing and women, immigrants and native-born,” interest in the central demand of our plat- the socialist presidential candidate stated. form, which is to support workers’ right to “Working people are reacting to these organize unions to defend themselves from conditions. They are reacting to forced the bosses’ assaults and to strengthen the overtime, the extension of the workday, Militant/John Brink labor movement to resist the continuing of- the work week, the work year, and their working life,” Calero said. “They are Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president (left), campaigns Sep- fensive by the employers and the two main tember 29 outside Tipatia store in Des Moines, Iowa. Four days earlier, the socialist parties of capitalism—the Democrats and reacting to speed-up on the job, two-tier candidate spoke at a campaign rally in San Francisco. He then joined Martín Koppel, Republicans.” wages, deteriorating health coverage or no SWP candidate for U.S. Senate in New York, for speaking engagements at Stony Brook At the event, held at a neighborhood medical benefi ts, unsafe working condi- University in Long Island and campaigning in Manhattan’s Garment District. YMCA near the socialist campaign hall on tions, and assaults by the bosses on our the edge of San Francisco’s Mission District, dignity.” organizers announced that the SWP had Workers face a grinding offensive both nominated Dennis Richter, a meat packer on and off the job, the socialist candidate and member of the United Food and Com- continued. “As a result, workers are being Utah miners: ‘Bosses’ lawsuit mercial Workers, as its candidate for U.S. pushed and they want to fi ght back. That’s Senate in California at a state nominating why millions want to organize unions or won’t stop our fight for union’ convention earlier that day. Richter, who strengthen the ones they have.” chaired the meeting, introduced the rest of While the labor movement continues to UMWA re-upping its support for miners the socialist slate in California. weaken, the struggle at the Co-Op mine in “The ruling class has a one-point pro- Huntington, Utah, is setting an example for gram,” Calero said. “Through speed-up, workers who are struggling to defend them- Co-Op workers build Oct. 2 solidarity rally lengthening the workday, and driving down selves from the employers’ attacks or who BY PAT MILLER tington, Utah, is run by C.W. Mining and is real wages, the bosses are trying to increase simply yearn to resist, Calero said. “The AND ANNE CARROLL owned by the Kingstons. The workers, their the surplus value they are extracting from union-organizing struggle by these coal PRICE, Utah—One year after being families, and other supporters of the union- workers, to increase their profi ts.” miners in Utah is a concrete example of locked out and forced to strike, and three organizing fi ght are gathering October 2 at Under the lash of intensifying capitalist the kind of battle that can be waged today,” months after winning the battle to be rein- the UMWA hall in Price to celebrate the competition, he said, “the employers need he stated. “This should be at the center of stated on the job, Co-Op miners here are one-year anniversary of their struggle and to increase the portion of the wealth work- Continued on Page 7 pressing ahead with their struggle to win show their resolve to win. At the rally, they representation by the United Mine Workers will also discuss how to counter the latest of America (UMWA). The mine near Hun- attack by the Co-Op bosses. Haiti floods: ‘Immediate, On September 24, attorneys for C.W. Mining and the so-called International Asso- unconditional ‘Militant’ and SWP ciation of United Workers Union (IAUWU), a social, not a which miners say is a company union, fi led also sued by the Kingstons a federal civil suit in the U.S. District Court ‘natural,’ disaster U.S. aid to Haiti!’ in Utah against the UMWA, its offi cers, and Imperialist plunder Says Martín Koppel, Defend freedom of speech! 17 current and former Co-Op miners. In all, Send funds to back defense 120 organizations and individuals are named is cause of deadly toll socialist candidate in the 76-page suit, accused of “unlawful — See editorial on page 10 labor practices” and “defamation.” BY ERIC SIMPSON for U.S. Senate in N.Y. “This company has taken advantage of AND LAWRENCE MIKESH BY PAUL PEDERSON the Co-Op miners for many years,” said MIAMI—Rains caused by Tropical NEW YORK—“The rising death toll Meat packers at Bob Butero, UMWA Region 4 director, in Storm Jeanne have resulted in widespread in Haiti, the thousands left homeless, and response to the lawsuit. “Now they are suing damage in northwest Haiti, as well as the threat of epidemics there after Tropical these organizations for trying to help the Florida. Storm Jeanne are not the result of a natural Minnesota Beef miners. All of us who support the workers The death toll in Haiti has been as- disaster. They are the result of imperialist are there because we support justice.” tounding. At least 1,500 people have been oppression and exploitation, which has win union vote Also named as defendants in the suit by confi rmed dead in the city of Gonaives, blocked economic development and led the Kingstons are the Salt Lake Tribune, and nearby smaller towns, and rural areas. to deforestation. The Socialist Workers BY CLAUDIO ZARATE and eight of its editors and journalists who Another 1,000 are missing, many of them campaign calls for canceling Haiti’s for- AND BOB SORENSON have reported on this labor struggle; the presumed dead. An unknown number have eign debt, which the imperialist powers BUFFALO LAKE, Minnesota—Workers Deseret Morning News and fi ve of its staff; been swept to the sea by the fl oods. About use to plunder the entire Third World. We at the Minnesota Beef Industries plant here the Militant newspaper, its editor, its web ad- Continued on Page 4 250,000 people have been made homeless. demand that Washington send immediate voted 53 to 46 to join United Food and Com- The reason for this devastation is not aid with no strings attached. This disaster mercial Workers (UFCW) Local 789. “natural.” It mainly stems from the country’s also speaks volumes for backing the right Local 789 won a groundbreaking vic- extreme deforestation as a result of imperial- of oppressed nations to expand electrifi ca- tory in organizing Dakota Premium Foods ist domination. The toll has also tion, which is necessary for development, in South St. Paul, Minnesota, two years ago Also Inside: been magnifi ed by the lack of by any means, including the use and has been trying to organize other pack- Yemeni regime cracks down adequate housing, medical care, of nuclear power.” ing plants in the area. The vote at Buffalo on ‘terrorist’ groups; Lake is the fi rst victory in this struggle. roads, transportation, communi- Pathfi nder This is how Martín Koppel, So- Washington drops arms embargo 3 cations, and other basic infra- cialist Workers Party candidate for The September 24 vote here came less than fi ve months after meat packers back- structure. These conditions are supersaver U.S. Senate in New York, opened Bondholders in Europe, Japan the result of exploitation by the his remarks while addressing a ing the union lost a previous representa- domestic capitalist ruling fami- sale p. 6 few dozen students September 22 tion election. Deteriorating conditions at resist Argentina’s demand lies and plunder by imperialist at the Borough of Manhattan Com- the Minnesota Beef plant helped turn the to write off 70% of its debt 3 powers—above all Washington, munity College (BMCC) here. He tide, workers said. In addition, promises Paris, and Ottawa. took the microphone shortly after the bosses had made last spring of better Rumsfeld defends repositioning Frequent fl ash fl oods are a worsening a member of the Haitian student club an- pay and benefi ts if the workers rejected the of U.S. military worldwide as feature of Haitian life, as living conditions nounced the formation of their organiza- union never materialized, union supporters NATO begins operations in Iraq 9 continue to deteriorate. About 3,000 Hai- tion. Students standing around the club’s pointed out. tians perished after fl oods and mudslides in literature table had been discussing the “If we get injured or if we have to work Farmers rally in Washington, D.C., light duty, we automatically get bumped June in the border region between Haiti and solidarity effort under way in New York’s to demand an end to anti-Black to $7 an hour,” said Manuel Cespedes, a the Dominican Republic.
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